Milestone without coal

摘要

For the first time in more than 130 years, the UK has gone for seven consecutive days without using coal to generate electricity.Accordingto the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), the milestone was reached at 1.24pm on 8 May (the last coal generator came off the system exactly a week earlier on 1 May).This marks the first time since the launch of the UK's first public coalpower station in 1882 (a 92kW, 27-tonne generator which produced DC current at 110V) that coal has been absent from the energy mix for an entire week.